Show your support for the USS strike action at the picket lines:
Thursday 22 February
Friday 23 February
Monday 26 February
Tuesday 27 February
Wednesday 28 February
Monday 5 March
Tuesday 6 March
Wednesday 7 March
Thursday 8 March
Monday 12 March
Tuesday 13 March
Wednesday 14 March
Thursday 15 March
Friday 16 March
Durham University
Picket locations
- Science Site
- Elvet Riverside
- Department of History
- Ushaw College
- Stockton Road, close to the junction with South Road, near The Palentine Centre
Picket times for the above locations
22nd & 26th February = 7am – 10am
23rd & 27th February = 8am – 10am
28th February = 11am – 1pm
5th March = 8.30am – 11.15am
6th & 7th March = 8.30am – 10.15am
8th March = 9.30am – 12.30pm
Additional pickets
Tuesday 27th February = picket the meeting of University Senate in the Lindisfarne Centre at St Aidan’s College from 12.30pm to 1.30pm. Meet on Mill Hill Lane at the point where the university car park is on the left and the road leading up to St Aidan’s is on the right.
UPDATE: The scheduled picket on the evening of 28th February has been cancelled as the Vice-Chancellor is no longer giving a public lecture in the Castle Great Hall due to the snow
Tuesday 6th March = 8.30 am – 10.15am Durham Business School (turn off Mill Hill Lane to entrance) and School of Education (Entrance on Leazes Road, A690)
Tuesday 6th March = 11.15am – 12.45pm Picket of ‘Town Hall Meeting with the VC’ – entrance to Law School
Wednesday 7th March = 12.30pm – 3.30pm Maiden Castle Sports Centre A177
Picket line supervisor: Francis Pritchard
Newcastle University
8am – 11am
- bottom of Kings Walk next to Kings Gate building
- entrance across from Haymarket next to INTO Building
- Claremont Road end of Kings Road
- St. Thomas’s Street end of Kings Road
- Framlington Place for Medical School
- Lovers Lane for Medical School
- end of Lovers Lane on Queen Victoria Road
- Kensington Terrace at Park Terrace end
- in front of Robinson Library
- Urban Sciences Building on Wellington Street
- Business School on Barrack Road
Main picket line supervisor: Bruce Baker
UCU guidance for branches on picketing